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The 34 GOP lawmakers opposing the bill cited concerns over increased spending and the absence of significant fiscal reforms. The 34 Republicans who voted against the resolution are: Jim Banks (R-IN) Andy Biggs (R-AZ) Dan Bishop (R-NC) Lauren Boebert (R-CO) Josh Brecheen (R-OK) Tim Burchett (R-TN) Eric Burlison (R-MO) Michael Cloud (R-TX) Andrew Clyde (R-GA) Eli Crane (R-AZ) John Curtis (R-UT) Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) Russ Fulcher (R-ID) Tony Gonzales (R-TX) Bob Good (R-VA) Lance Gooden (R-TX) Glenn Grothman (R-WI) Andy Harris (R-MD) Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) Wesley Hunt (R-TX) Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) Monica De La Cruz Lopez (R-TX) Nancy Mace (R-SC)...

House Speaker Mike Johnson brokered a last-minute agreement with Democrat leaders late Friday. The deal extends federal funding through March and allocates substantial disaster relief, but notably excludes President-elect Donald Trump’s demand for a debt ceiling increase, according to AP. The 118-page package maintains current government funding levels and includes $100 billion for disaster aid and $10 billion in agricultural assistance. However, it omits provisions to raise the debt ceiling, a point of contention for Trump and his allies, including billionaire Elon Musk, who had advocated for a long-term suspension of the borrowing limit. Trump reiterated his position on the...

Don't let Mike Johnson and RINO Republicans lie to you ... they have the gavel. They could write a short bill today with a clean 3-month CR, only adding hurricane relief, zero pork, and no raise. Then if Democrats vote against it, they can honestly say they voted against hurricane relief victims. It's that freaking simple. They don't want to because they're used to getting themselves, their lobbyists, and their donors filthy rich off the backs of hardworking Americans. ENOUGH !!! ... They could but they won’t. ... Speaker Johnson needs to not only vacate the chair he must be...

The recently unveiled government funding bill “full of pork” shows that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is a “weak, weak man,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said on Wednesday. The 1,547-page spending deal released Tuesday night includes a multitude of controversial items, including a pay raise for members of Congress. “I had hoped to see @SpeakerJohnson grow a spine, but this bill full of pork shows he is a weak, weak man,” Paul said. “The debt will continue to grow. Ultimately the dollar will fail. Democrats are clueless and Big Gov Republicans are complicit,” he added. “A sad day for America.” Rand...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: A new provision in the latest CR lets Congress block subpoenas for House data, including emails, potentially preventing any investigation into the J6 Committee.

Mike Johnson is a pathetic excuse for a Republican who has no business being speaker, let alone a congressman.It’s another day that ends in “-y,” which means House Speaker Mike Johnson is busy stabbing conservative voters in the back.Following days of backdoor scheming, congressional leaders released the text of their 1,547-page spending measure to fund the federal government through March 2025. Deceptively marketed as a “continuing resolution” or CR, the bill bears all the hallmarks of the bloated omnibus packages Johnson recently promised voters wouldn’t happen under his watch.“We have broken the Christmas omni and I have no intention of...

Congress staggered toward a fast-approaching government funding cliff on Tuesday, as leading lawmakers zeroed in on a bipartisan funding compromise but struggled to cinch a final deal. Without new legislation, government agencies will shutter at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) was widely expected to introduce a continuing resolution, or CR, over the weekend to punt that deadline into mid-March. Instead, disputes over aid for farmers and funding for Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge appeared to cloud discussions over the weekend, lawmakers said. Those projects threatened to turn what was supposed to be a routine federal funding...

Trust in the justice system has been “almost irreparably damaged by the Bidens,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said in reaction to President Joe Biden pardoning Hunter, his criminal son, for crimes spanning back to 2014. Johnson reminded Americans of the fact that Biden insisted time and time again that he would not pardon his son. “President Biden insisted many times he would never pardon his own son for his serious crimes. But last night he suddenly granted a ‘Full and Unconditional Pardon’ for any and all offenses that Hunter committed for more than a decade!” Johnson exclaimed.

Earlier, we told you about Speaker of the House Mike Johnson swatting down a gotcha question from the media about Representative-Elect Sarah McBride. McBride is a 'trans woman', which is a lot of words to say 'man', and is currently in the spotlight because Rep. Nancy Mace doesn't want McBride using the women's restrooms. Some people weren't happy with Johnson's less-than-clear answer on McBride, but hopefully this answer will allay their fears: SPEAKER JOHNSON: "Let me be unequivocally clear. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. And a man cannot become a woman." pic.twitter.com/jkSobuonXb — Breaking911...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has privately committed to back an effort led by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) to block biological men from using women’s restrooms in the U.S. Capitol. Mace announced Monday she would introduce a resolution to ban transgender women (biological men) from using biological women’s restrooms at the U.S. Capitol. Johnson, during Tuesday morning’s weekly House Republican Conference meeting, said transgender women won’t be allowed to use women’s restrooms in the Capitol, Politico reports. “He said there’s not going to be any biological men using our restrooms,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Politico. Mace confirmed Greene’s account,...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) sidestepped any specifics Tuesday when asked about Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del.), who will be the first transgender member of the House, amid an effort by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) to ban transgender women from single-sex facilities such as women’s restrooms in the Capitol. “We welcome all members with open arms who are newly elected representatives of the people. I believe it’s a — it’s a command. We treat all persons with dignity and respect,” Johnson said at a press conference Tuesday when asked about McBride. “And I’m not going to engage in silly debates about this,”...

Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and RFK Jr. walk into an arena ... No punch line here -- just punches -- as the President-elect returned to the site of his pre-election rally, and brought some famous buddies! The soon-to-be 47th U.S. President, flanked by close friend Dana White, walked to his Octagon-side seat with Elon and Bobby, as well as Musk's DOGE's partner, Vivek Ramaswamy, Tulsi Gabbard, DJT's pick for Director of National Intelligence, and Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.

President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson walk out to UFC 309 Trump walks out with Elon, Tulsi, RFK Jr, & Dana White at UFC 309 Nov 16, 2024

Transcript: Sean: Donald Trump was on Capitol Hill today meeting with House Republicans, who are now only one seat away from reaching that magic number of 218. It's expected they will have 222 at the end of the day, officially retaining control of the chamber. After a big endorsement from Donald Trump, House Republicans then unanimously backed Mike Johnson to remain as Speaker of the House in January. He joins us now. Mr. Speaker, thank you, we appreciate it. So, the polls were showing a 70-80% chance he would lose the majority. That did not happen. You have a majority,...

Jake Tapper's obsession got so strange that Mike Johnson had to implore Tapper to stop it . . . On the Sunday edition of CNN's State of the Union, host Tapper couldn't stop talking about . . . Arnold Palmer's penis. Yes, Trump had alluded to it during a rally in the late, great golfer's hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania. But Tapper was absolutely obsessed with it, and wouldn't stop peppering Speaker Johnson on the subject. Trying to move onto policy, Johnson wryly observed, "Jake, you seem to like that line a lot!”Get the rest of the story and view the...

VIDEOMuch of the October 20, 2024 "State Of The Uniton" on CNN was concerned with Jake Tapper's obsession over the size of a certain body part belonging to golfer Arnold Palmer. Tapper just wouldn't let it go to the extent of grilling House Speaker Mike Johnson to weigh in on this topic as if it were the utmost concern of this election. Even Bernie Sanders joined in with Tapper's Arnold Palmer body part obsession.Note: In case you're wondering, NO AI was used to make a certain word pop out of Jake Tapper's mouth over and over again. This all happened...

State Legislative Chambers: 56 Republican; 41 Democrat; 2 Nonpartisan (57% Republican, 41% Democrat) State Houses of Representatives: 2,938 Republicans; 2,423 Democrats; 52 third party or vacant (54% Republican, 45% Democrat) State Senates: 1,114 Republicans; 843 Democrats; 16 third party or vacant (56% Republican, 43% Democrat) State Governors: 27 Republicans; 23 Democrats (54% Republican, 46% Democrat) US House of Representatives: 220 Republicans; 212 Democrats; 3 vacant (51% Republican, 49% Democrat) US Senate: 51 Democrats; 49 Republicans (51% Democrat, 49% Republican)

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the Republicans will win the White House, Senate and House in the upcoming election. Johnson said, “The headline that I read about the rally in Pennsylvania yesterday was the big question, and it’s the one that Kamala Harris has not been able or willing to answer, and that is, are you better off now than you were under the Trump administration four years ago. No one can answer that question with a yes.” He added, “I mean, no one, and that’s why Kamala Harris herself avoids the...

House Speaker Mike Johnson promised Thursday that New York Republicans will “defy the odds again” and win even more seats in 2024 than they did in the 2022 midterms, when they helped to secure the party’s majority in the lower chamber. In an exclusive sit-down with The Post, Johnson (R-La.) predicted Republicans will achieve unified government after the Nov. 5 election, thanks in large part to strong candidates running in tough Empire State swing districts. “We recruited workhorses — and not show ponies — this cycle,” the House speaker boasted, saying he was “very bullish” about growing his majority by...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich offered kudos to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and his leadership as head of the Republican conference on Friday, admiring his patience while dealing with “idiots.”Gingrich sparked laughter among the crowd while he spoke at the U.S. Capitol on the 30th anniversary of the “Contract with America,” a 10-point policy document he spearheaded in 1994 that is often credited with Republicans’ sweeping victories that year.“I could never do what Mike Johnson is doing. … I can lead a charge. I am pretty good on offense. The amount of time he has to spend listening to idiots...